Takahide Ishii

Takahide Ishii (石井 孝英) is a Japanese voice actor from Ibaraki Prefecture, affiliated with With Line. He started voice acting after his sister took him to see a musical and after being impressed by the first live performance of voice actor Mamoru Miyano, and he has starred as Nanao Wakura in Cute High Earth Defense Club Happy Kiss, Junpei Shirayama in Dimension High School, Ryosuke Minase in Futsal Boys!!!!!, Tarō J. Suzuki in Delusional Monthly Magazine, and Tomoatsu Naoe in Plus-Sized Elf.

Biography
Takahide Ishii, a native of Ibaraki Prefecture, was born on 3 June. He fell in love with anime after watching The Law of Ueki as an elementary school sixth grade student. He was initially interested in stock trading and becoming an illustrator, but decided to go into voice acting after his sister took him to see a musical and after being impressed by Mamoru Miyano's first live performance, where her mother took him to after someone she knew was invited to be a backup dancer there. He was educated at Tokyo Announce Gakuin. In 2013, he passed the 7th Seiyu Awards New Voice Actor Discovery Auditions.

In 2018, he starred as Nanao Wakura in Cute High Earth Defense Club Happy Kiss and Junpei Shirayama in Dimension High School, and he performed "Here We Go!", the anime's opening theme, as part of the tie-in unit 4 Dimensions. In 2022, he starred as Ryosuke Minase in the Futsal Boys!!!!! anime, and he performed "Higher Goals", the theme song for their game ''Futsal Boys!!!!! High-Five League''', alongside the other twenty-eight main cast members. In 2024, he was cast as Tarō J. Suzuki in Delusional Monthly Magazine and Tomoatsu Naoe in Plus-Sized Elf.

Ishii lists fighting games and first-person shooters as his hobbies. He began gaming while he was three and once broke his arm, which left him in a cast while holding onto a controller. At the time, his parents were surprised by his interest in games.